Gamma radiation is emitted by the fission reaction and resulting product nuclei, not by the EMP mechanism. IIRC, EMP is actually caused by asymmetric gamma flux in a nuclear device accelerating electrons in an asymmetric pattern.
You're right - most ground-based or low altitude nuclear explosions have a symmetrical EMP flux, causing them to effectively cancel out. (Unless you happen to be within the blast radius, then you've got bigger problems)
A few high-altitude explosions over the pacific in the 60's caused havoc to (early) electronic stuff and power grids over a thousand miles away.
Are you mad? serious graphic designers hate LCD displays , as the contrast changes depending on the viewing angle (and to a smaller extent the colour balance does as well). CRT's don't suffer from this problem.
But you're right, it's lavender, or a blue shade anyway.
Perhaps the original poster's broken his blue drive on his display and has yet to notice it? "Man , what's with all these pinky/green websites lately? And this new windows colour theme *sucks*"
It looks like to really find out what happend, we'll have to wait (as NIMA suggests) until a visiting mars mission drops by the landing/crash site.....
Searcher #1: "There it is , over near that rock."
Searcher #2: "Hey look - the antenna didn't deploy! Give that antenna a thump and I'll reset that circuit breaker."
(Searcher #1 kicks lander hard... After a pause , the antenna slowly deploys)
Searcher #2: "Ah, there it goes! Hey, let's not tell the guys at mission control we found it, they'll freak when they hear it talking again!"
Searcher #1 to Mission Control: "Sorry , Control, that's a negative on grid number 41. No lander here."
Hmmm - I can rip a DVD to a 1600kbps xVid file in about 2 hours using the ripper in MythTV (MythDVD and transcode as the backend). It takes 15 min or so to rip the VOB file, about 2 hours or so to encode it. This is with a XP2000+ and gentoo linux, strangely DVD rips on my XP1800+ under winXP take 8 hours or so and even with some careful scrutiny I can't see the difference.
Beats me why it does that , but I don't complain, I just rip them all with MythDVD now;-)
It seems to work rather well - I'm on a "Flat-Rate" Plan. The more you download compared to everyone else *downloading at that moment* , the lower your priority in the packet queue is. They've got it set so that after about 30GB+ you eventually hit 10kB/s - this is mainly due to.au's pitiful and expensive broadband infrastructure.
They're very up-front about it, they specifically mention in all the FAQ's that it's flat-rate, not unlimited etc and give you rough ideas of performance vs download outcomes. The bonus of course is that they don't give a damn about how much you download , the system is self-controlling, and there's no overusage fees. I average about 12GB/mo (p2p, surfing etc) and have no issues with speed deviations from my rated (512/128) speed. People have hit 50-60GB / month downloads at times, which is amazing (in.au terms) for a plan that costs AUD99 a month.
Compare this to Telstra where on a AUD179/mo "Business" account we were charged an extra $1000 for downloading (and uploading!!) a total of 14GB. Bastards.
You can put Open Source projects you work on in your spare time on a resume?
I'd say if they were relevant to the position you were applying for, and that you have spent a fair bit of work on them, yes. Employers would like to know about any possible experience you have that is relevant.
Buy a litre of milk and you get to drink it once. Buy a cow and you get to drink all the milk you want. Easy decision, no?
There's something to be said for ease-of-use though. To run with your analogy here:
You buy a litre of milk, you drink your milk, you're done.
You buy a cow, you get as much milk as you like, but you have to feed the cow / maintain the cow / milk the cow and without the proper equipment (and a little training) you can wind up in trouble.
People just want their milk, and if there's a one in 100 chance the milk they buy today has gone bad already, well they just think about the other option and deal with it.
It appears the reflector is a ring around the core of the reactor. The actual nuclear reaction only takes place in the area that the reflector covers, as the reflector reflects (duh!;-) enough neutrons back into that section too keep things cooking.
The refector is slowly moved down the core as the fuel is used up, so if you accidently move / drop the reflector too far, all you get (if they've done their sums right ) is reactor output equivalent of 100% design output... or maybe a little more, depending on how they start the thing, but still well within design tolerances.
Pretty much foolproof (for most values of "fool" anyway).
They got their sockets wrong - socket 5 was for early-model pentiums, not 486's. They must be pretty young if they don't remember socket 3's for 486's. Hell, I had a Intel InBoard 386 that you put in your XT (!!) PC and hooked up to your 8086 socket, with a bunch of ribbon cable.... man, did that sucker fly!:-)
I recall a friend of mine getting a new 486 dx4-100 for his compaq and installing it 90 degrees off.
He spent an hour going "Hmmm. Why won't this boot? The fan powers up, the LED on the CPU card blinks... then nothing!"
We pulled the chip out and plugged it back in the right way round and it powered up fine. Amazing.
That's an important point. A few years ago , our town's landfill, well, filled up.
But... due to a rather amazing bit of short-sightedness there's a two year delay in getting the new landfill online! What to do? Well, in our case, they've gotten the Recycling Nazi's to take over operation of the landfill (which is rapidly turning into a large hill, there's a good view from the top).
Now everyone going in gets their load of junk inspected for anything recyclable by the Recycling Nazi's. Boxes / glass / paper / car parts / old fridges / oil / any domestic appliance gets taken and so on. The only thing that makes it to the landfill now is domestic refuse. Of course, when I use the phrase "Recycling Nazi" I'm being facetious - they're quite friendly and will happily sift through your junk without any effort on your part.
The upshot of this is of course: - Our landfill grows at a slower rate than it did previously. Which is lucky , because for a while there we all thought it would start blocking out the sun soon;-) - That one man's junk is another man's treasure and they make a bit of cash selling used parts cheap.(Eg I bought an A/C compressor for my car for $5, as opposed to $400 new)
You can bet that any time anyone launches something orbital (or more importantly, suborbital) that NORAD (an thier Russian etc counterparts) will be looking long and hard at it.
I'd be guessing that somewhere in their three ring binder for space launches there's a little note that says "ring this number and inform NORAD et al of time of launch". It'd be the polite thing to do, anyway.
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Gamma radiation is emitted by the fission reaction and resulting product nuclei, not by the EMP mechanism. IIRC, EMP is actually caused by asymmetric gamma flux in a nuclear device accelerating electrons in an asymmetric pattern.
You're right - most ground-based or low altitude nuclear explosions have a symmetrical EMP flux, causing them to effectively cancel out. (Unless you happen to be within the blast radius, then you've got bigger problems)
A few high-altitude explosions over the pacific in the 60's caused havoc to (early) electronic stuff and power grids over a thousand miles away.
A quick google shows a mention of this
You might even get a slashdot category named after you.
more likely you'll just get a darwin award.
Come on, if you can get your picture in a ROM sold in thousands of computers, surely that deserves a mention?
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Are you mad? serious graphic designers hate LCD displays , as the contrast changes depending on the viewing angle (and to a smaller extent the colour balance does as well). CRT's don't suffer from this problem.
But you're right, it's lavender, or a blue shade anyway.
Perhaps the original poster's broken his blue drive on his display and has yet to notice it?
"Man , what's with all these pinky/green websites lately? And this new windows colour theme *sucks*"
It looks like to really find out what happend, we'll have to wait (as NIMA suggests) until a visiting mars mission drops by the landing/crash site.....
Searcher #1: "There it is , over near that rock."
Searcher #2: "Hey look - the antenna didn't deploy! Give that antenna a thump and I'll reset that circuit breaker."
(Searcher #1 kicks lander hard... After a pause , the antenna slowly deploys)
Searcher #2: "Ah, there it goes! Hey, let's not tell the guys at mission control we found it, they'll freak when they hear it talking again!"
Searcher #1 to Mission Control: "Sorry , Control, that's a negative on grid number 41. No lander here."
(Searchers depart the area, giggling.)
Hmmm - I can rip a DVD to a 1600kbps xVid file in about 2 hours using the ripper in MythTV (MythDVD and transcode as the backend). It takes 15 min or so to rip the VOB file, about 2 hours or so to encode it.
;-)
This is with a XP2000+ and gentoo linux, strangely DVD rips on my XP1800+ under winXP take 8 hours or so and even with some careful scrutiny I can't see the difference.
Beats me why it does that , but I don't complain, I just rip them all with MythDVD now
Give me your home address. I'll send you a box of full stop's to use ;-)
it's probably stored ok, but they're outputting it via some function that takes into account their local timezone.
Yes, easier for the ISP perhaps, but not that good an experience for the end user.
:-)
I prefer getting the 'gradual slowdown' rather than the 'brick-wall' megabit-to-modem shaping. But, hey, whatever people prefer I suppose
Internode (in .au) uses this method.
.au's pitiful and expensive broadband infrastructure.
.au terms) for a plan that costs AUD99 a month.
It seems to work rather well - I'm on a "Flat-Rate" Plan. The more you download compared to everyone else *downloading at that moment* , the lower your priority in the packet queue is. They've got it set so that after about 30GB+ you eventually hit 10kB/s - this is mainly due to
They're very up-front about it, they specifically mention in all the FAQ's that it's flat-rate, not unlimited etc and give you rough ideas of performance vs download outcomes. The bonus of course is that they don't give a damn about how much you download , the system is self-controlling, and there's no overusage fees. I average about 12GB/mo (p2p, surfing etc) and have no issues with speed deviations from my rated (512/128) speed. People have hit 50-60GB / month downloads at times, which is amazing (in
Compare this to Telstra where on a AUD179/mo "Business" account we were charged an extra $1000 for downloading (and uploading!!) a total of 14GB. Bastards.
Am I missing something?
yes , the general "burstable" nature of internet connections.
Most ISP's have about a 10 to 1 ratio of user to total bandwidth.
You can put Open Source projects you work on in your spare time on a resume?
I'd say if they were relevant to the position you were applying for, and that you have spent a fair bit of work on them, yes. Employers would like to know about any possible experience you have that is relevant.
come on up to Mount Isa (QLD) it's been hitting 40 over the last few weeks :-(
Buy a litre of milk and you get to drink it once. Buy a cow and you get to drink all the milk you want. Easy decision, no?
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There's something to be said for ease-of-use though. To run with your analogy here
You buy a litre of milk, you drink your milk, you're done.
You buy a cow, you get as much milk as you like, but you have to feed the cow / maintain the cow / milk the cow and without the proper equipment (and a little training) you can wind up in trouble.
People just want their milk, and if there's a one in 100 chance the milk they buy today has gone bad already, well they just think about the other option and deal with it.
That's it - in theory (without knowing the actual design) you could just move the reflector back up to the unused part and keep on going.
It appears the reflector is a ring around the core of the reactor. The actual nuclear reaction only takes place in the area that the reflector covers, as the reflector reflects (duh! ;-) enough neutrons back into that section too keep things cooking.
The refector is slowly moved down the core as the fuel is used up, so if you accidently move / drop the reflector too far, all you get (if they've done their sums right ) is reactor output equivalent of 100% design output... or maybe a little more, depending on how they start the thing, but still well within design tolerances.
Pretty much foolproof (for most values of "fool" anyway).
yeah , one mutated gene at a time :-(
They got their sockets wrong - socket 5 was for early-model pentiums, not 486's. They must be pretty young if they don't remember socket 3's for 486's. Hell, I had a Intel InBoard 386 that you put in your XT (!!) PC and hooked up to your 8086 socket, with a bunch of ribbon cable.... man, did that sucker fly! :-)
I recall a friend of mine getting a new 486 dx4-100 for his compaq and installing it 90 degrees off.
He spent an hour going "Hmmm. Why won't this boot? The fan powers up, the LED on the CPU card blinks... then nothing!"
We pulled the chip out and plugged it back in the right way round and it powered up fine. Amazing.
That's an important point.
: ;-)
A few years ago , our town's landfill, well, filled up.
But... due to a rather amazing bit of short-sightedness there's a two year delay in getting the new landfill online! What to do?
Well, in our case, they've gotten the Recycling Nazi's to take over operation of the landfill (which is rapidly turning into a large hill, there's a good view from the top).
Now everyone going in gets their load of junk inspected for anything recyclable by the Recycling Nazi's. Boxes / glass / paper / car parts / old fridges / oil / any domestic appliance gets taken and so on. The only thing that makes it to the landfill now is domestic refuse. Of course, when I use the phrase "Recycling Nazi" I'm being facetious - they're quite friendly and will happily sift through your junk without any effort on your part.
The upshot of this is of course
- Our landfill grows at a slower rate than it did previously. Which is lucky , because for a while there we all thought it would start blocking out the sun soon
- That one man's junk is another man's treasure and they make a bit of cash selling used parts cheap.(Eg I bought an A/C compressor for my car for $5, as opposed to $400 new)
There was a slashdot article a long ways back about a preliminary version sugar-cube burning machine/robot thing.
aha - a link from howstuffworks shows all.
Momentary keyswitches, on opposite sides of the room :-)
"Excuse me , could you help me start my pc?"
As all the old-school Bitnet zealots would tell you, Bitnet is God's Own Email system :-)
You can bet that any time anyone launches something orbital (or more importantly, suborbital) that NORAD (an thier Russian etc counterparts) will be looking long and hard at it.
I'd be guessing that somewhere in their three ring binder for space launches there's a little note that says "ring this number and inform NORAD et al of time of launch". It'd be the polite thing to do, anyway.
It's one thing to design something yourself, and quite another to take a complete design that already works and tweak it.
Like open source?
Why reinvent the wheel on the first trip? Give them a little while to sort things out.
This is what happens when you let automated spell checkers do all the work.
iPods are not for "Audiophiles"
iPods are for Audio Files
Jeez, at least proofread your posts before submitting them!